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Is Pornography Addictive?
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dead_reggin_storage_fashi
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hell yes. I like to read escort adds and jerk off those pics more then porno. I beat off to eros and craigslist all the time
Lestat said:
Which is to say, it can be very addictive. Lots of things can be addictive that don't have physical chemical involvement. Gambling, sex, porn, food, work, etc. When you're just doing it because you're horny, it's one thing. When you find yourself doing it to self medicate and can't stop or moderate even when it starts negatively impacting your life (get fired from work, and so on), it's another.
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Kano
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Porn seems to have this weird semi-drug effect on at least some people. In that they start out looking at pretty vanilla stuff, and find that stimulating, but sooner or later they need to see racier and racier stuff for the same level of stimulation. That progresses into needing really hardcore stuff, and sooner or later they cross the boundary into really fucking perverted shit. All in the quest to find the thing that will turn them on like naked boobies used to.
So yeah, I think it can be addictive for some people just like gambling, booze, smoking, food or anything else can be for others. If it stimulates the correct part of your brain, it can become your personal demon.
So yeah, I think it can be addictive for some people just like gambling, booze, smoking, food or anything else can be for others. If it stimulates the correct part of your brain, it can become your personal demon.
dead_reggin_storage_fashi
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musclemom said:
damn....you got me on that. used to be Sears catalog, then playboy, then anal then DP etc
seaking420
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lol
tracemhunter
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I certainly think that it is addictive. The internet has ruined my imagination.
"Me attempting to masturbate without porn is like trying to build a log cabin. I am sure that people used to do it but I wouldn't even know where to start."
"Me attempting to masturbate without porn is like trying to build a log cabin. I am sure that people used to do it but I wouldn't even know where to start."
food is definitely not addictive.nefertiti said:
Some chemical elements of it can be, such as caffeine (which is only mildly addictive).
Its important to understand what addictive really means. Do you develop tolerance? Do you experience negative effects when discontinuing use?
I'm sorry, Lestat, but I have to disagree with you on this. Addiction is not based on the subject of the addiction, addiction is based on the addict.Lestat said:
I've had problems with a lot of stuff in my life, and you don't necessarily have to have physical withdrawal to have some form of withdrawal, even if it's just flat out missing your particular "fix." It's no different for people who have food problems. You get a "high" from eating, if binging is your addiction, or you get a "high" from starving yourself if you're hooked on the dieting aspect of it. You may not have a standard withdrawal, of course, removal of the food is never an option like it is with other addictions, but you have other problems.
Just because you don't have a problem with that demon, doesn't make the demon any less real. I'll give you an example of an addiction I totally don't get: gambling. Now I've tried gambling, I find it the absolute dumbest waste of time and energy ever created. I find absolutely no pleasure in this experience, I shit you not. But there are people that will risk EVERYTHING for their gambling demon. I don't deny their demon, I don't UNDERSTAND it, but I don't deny it exists.
You can be addicted to anything including, food, exercise, work, sex, dieting and people. Of course, some of these problems verge on obsessions, but I'm not so sure there's a big difference between addiction and obsession.
Lestat said:
I think you and I are having a disconnect. Food is not addictive the way heroin is, or smoking. But people can get addicted to food, and porn. The difference is the addiction is psychological - but it's every bit as serious.
You don't need physical withdrawl symptoms for something to be labeled addictive. See: gambling
As MM said, anything that triggers a certain brain response can be addictive. For some people, food does that. Anything that negatively impacts your life, but you cannot stop, any compulsive behavior that triggers that certain chemical release in the brain - that's addiction. The item itself doesn't cause the addiction - your brain does. But that doesn't make it any less that.
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borris
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i'm addicted to Nefertiti's homevids she sends me
List of things I've given up in chronological order:
1. coke
2. cigarettes
3. pot
4. porn
I'll still look at nude women on the interwebs but won't go searching for shit or buying movies like I used to.
1. coke
2. cigarettes
3. pot
4. porn
I'll still look at nude women on the interwebs but won't go searching for shit or buying movies like I used to.
i used to have an entire room in my house dedicated to porn. Not anymore though. after you pass the fisting, play rape, buttplug, DP, tranny, goldenshowers phase there really sint much you can do anymore to get you off.
I just kinda threw my sex drive away for awhile. maybe it will come back in a year or so?
I just kinda threw my sex drive away for awhile. maybe it will come back in a year or so?
BIGBUCK$ said:
Anyone who thinks it can't be has either never lived with, or been an addict.
Addictive behavior, regardless of a physical componant, is identical. As a bulimic, I went to NA meetings with my sister (a former drug addict) and heard people talk about things that I could relate to so easily that I could have simply replaced "binged and purge" for where they said "smoked crack" and we would have had the same mental proccesses. As MM said, it's not the object that is neccesarily addictive. It's the addicts brain that makes it such. That's why addicts are frequently found to replace one addiction with another. The addiction is within, and can manifest itself any number of ways. Including porn.
ponyfitness
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I definitely think its addictive. It can cause all of the classic signs and symptoms:
Hiding the behaviour due to guilt
Increased consumption leads to tolerance and accelerated use (needing freakier stuff to get you off)
Effects are the same as a mild narcotic (dopamine release)
Separation from family and/or loved ones (can cause severe marital issues)
People stuggle with addiction to this just like any drug.
Hiding the behaviour due to guilt
Increased consumption leads to tolerance and accelerated use (needing freakier stuff to get you off)
Effects are the same as a mild narcotic (dopamine release)
Separation from family and/or loved ones (can cause severe marital issues)
People stuggle with addiction to this just like any drug.
You're asking an answer that professionals in the field debate themselves, did you even read the link?BIGBUCK$ said:
Here's a pertinent excerpt:
"The difference between describing the behavior as a compulsion or an addiction is subtle, but important.
Erick Janssen, PhD, a researcher at the Kinsey Institute, criticizes the use of the term addiction when talking about porn because he says it merely describes certain people's behavior as being addiction-like, but treating them as addicts may not help them.
Many people may diagnose themselves as porn addicts after reading popular books on the subject, he says. But mental health professionals have no standard criteria to diagnose porn addiction.
Mary Anne Layden, PhD, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, was one of the witnesses at the Senate hearing on pornography addiction. She says the same criteria used to diagnose problems like pathological gambling and substance abuse can be applied to problematic porn use.
"The therapists who treat pornography addicts say they behave just like any other addicts," she tells WebMD.
One of the key features of addiction, she says, is the development of a tolerance to the addictive substance. In the way that drug addicts need increasingly larger doses to get high, she thinks porn addicts need to see more and more extreme material to feel the same level of excitement they first experienced."
I think they're just dancing around semantics. I'm willing to bet a LOT of professionals are hesitant about labeling porn as even having the potential of being addictive because that's opening up the whole can of worms of industry regulation. Can you imagine if they put porn in the same league as tobacco, alcohol and heroin? BUT THIS SHIT IS FREELY AVAILABLE!!!
Hell, the fucking tobacco industry only admitted that cigarettes were addictive how long ago? Wake up. For the right person, porn is addictive. If people can be addicted to shopping, gambling and sex, they can be addicted to pornography.
Shit, look at the poll. We have the biggest single group of openly horny bastards on the internet gathered in one place, and THEY think, by a margin of nearly 4 to 1, that it's potentially addictive.
MichaelScott
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if you use it alot to be with yourself then i guess it is addicting
Lestat said:
Good idea! Quit food "cold turkey" and see how long you can last!
LOL!
I think anything can become somewhat addictive (to different degrees). But, with things like porn, I think the more you view that thing (porn, lying, etc. etc.) as a "sin" or "something naughty" that you shouldn't do, the more potential it has for becoming addictive.
Yes food can be addictive. Psychologically it most certainly can be addictive. Look at the child who was starved as a toddler who now must eat 24/7. All he can think about.
There are instances where food makes people feel better. they will only feel better when they chow 50 plates of food in one day..That is not addictive?
There are instances where food makes people feel better. they will only feel better when they chow 50 plates of food in one day..That is not addictive?
Angel said:
I went to a few OA meetings when I was in recovery from my ED because I was told it was not all COE's (compulsive overeaters). One of these people would talk about out of control binges where she would try to throw food out to stop herself and then she'd dig the food out of the trash and eat it anyway. If that's not sick addict like behavior, I don't know what is.
dead_reggin_storage_fashi
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I am watching porno now, I am looking at escort adds (one of my hobbies) I will masterbate in a few minutes, clean up with a warm towel, shower then go to work. Once I come and put the pc I am done until I get home from work then masterbate again.
I have seen tv shows where men are porn addicts
I am not strung on out though. I enjoy double penetration videos and bloopers
I have seen tv shows where men are porn addicts
I am not strung on out though. I enjoy double penetration videos and bloopers
